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After-Hours Maintenance Emergencies

If you feel you need emergency maintenance to handle a problem after 4:30 p.m., notify your 24-hour desk as soon as possible.

  • Maintenance staff work from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
  • One staff member is on-call for emergencies 24-hours per day, seven days a week.
  • An emergency is any item which, if not corrected immediately, may seriously impact the safety and security of the building and/or the occupants or may create undue hardship for building occupants. Examples of this type of an emergency include fire, flood, no elevators operational, or serious power, heating or plumbing failures.
  • If you're not sure if what you're seeing is an emergency, don't hesitate to give your 24-hour building desk a call. In all cases, the building staff will make the determination if an emergency call to the maintenance staff is warranted.
  • Note that some work, such as retrieving contact lenses from drains or keys from an elevator shaft, may be billed to the occupant if handled after normal work hours.
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